The New York Times18d
This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse ...
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A plant in the ‘corpse flower’ family is blooming in Brooklyn: What does it smell like?
The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. “I think this is an equally impressive ...
New York Post18d
Blooming corpse flower unleashes foul ‘rotten flesh’ stench at Brooklyn Botanical Garden in historical first
Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...
theticker1d
Rare ‘corpse flower’ briefly takes NYC by the nose
When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds ...
NBC New York17d
‘Rotting' corpse flower in rare bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for a limited time
It's called the "corpse flower" — otherwise known as titus-arum or amorphophallus titanum — and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden says it's smelly bloom will only last a couple of days. What's ...
USA Today16d
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
Associated Press17d
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
(AP Video: John Minchillo) Visitors take photos of the the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s rare Amorphophallus gigas, a relative of the “corpse flower,” that has bloomed for the first time since ...
Gothamist20d
A flower blooms in Brooklyn, and it reeks of rotting flesh
A flower at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that emits a noxious smell when it blooms every two to 10 years is expected to pop this week, according to the garden’s staff. The corpse flower ...